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Topic: Russia ready to help Cuba build space center
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tfetner Member Posts: 247 From: Birmingham Alabama USA Registered: Sep 2002
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posted 09-17-2008 03:19 PM
Anyone see this?Reuters: Russia to help Cuba build space center Moscow is ready to help Cuba develop its own space center, Russia's space agency chief said on Wednesday after talks in Caracas with Venezuelan and Cuban officials, Itar-Tass news agency reported.Russia has stepped up efforts to develop closer links with both countries, which are ideological enemies of Washington, including sending Russian strategic bombers on a mission to Venezuela this month. "We have held preliminary discussions about the possibility of creating a space center in Cuba with our help," the chief of Russia's Federal Space Agency Anatoly Perminov was quoted as saying by Itar-Tass in Caracas. "With our Cuban colleagues, we discussed the possibilities of joint use of space equipment... and the joint use of space communications systems," Perminov was quoted as saying. |
SpaceCadet83 Member Posts: 38 From: Enid, OK, United States Registered: Oct 2007
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posted 09-17-2008 05:21 PM
And I'm sure, the use of their intelligence sats, or at least sanitized photos and info!------------------ "Poyekhali![Off we go!]" Yu.Gagarin,12 April 1961 | |
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